A girl’s best friend is her mutter.
DOROTHY PARKERGenius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.
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Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.
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[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.
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You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.
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The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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